manred

plural manreds · alternative obsolete mandred

1. countablehistoricaluncountableVassals collectively; the men a feudal lord can call upon in wartime.

   There he was joined by his sons and addition troops, almost certainly more of the Dudley manred from the Midlands.

   2009, Eric William Ives, “The March on Framlingham”, in Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 203

2. countableobsoleteuncountableHomage, allegiance; support of one's feudal superior.
3. countableobsoleterareuncountableThe leader of a troop or retinue.

1. uncountableCeltic paganismThe primal substance of the Universe

   They were made of the manred, that is, of the elements in the extremities of their particles and smallest atom … God was in each of the particles of the manred, […]

   2003, Kennth Morris, “Druidism”, in G. De Purucker, editor, Theosophical Path Magazine, January to June 1930, Kessinger Publishing, →ISBN, page 131

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   God pronounce his ineffable name, and Manred, the primal substance of the Universe, was formed. Manred was composed of thousands of teeming atoms in each of which God was present, and each was part of God.

   2004, Lewis Spence, “The Celtic Idea of the Origin of Man”, in An Introduction to Mythology, Cosimo, Inc, →ISBN, page 169